AMD Radeon RX Vega Needs Lots of Power, Says MSI Marketing Director

Delivering high performance is synonymous with high power usage. This was proven true anew when partner retailers received their AMD Radeon RX Vega graphic card boards. So what did they found out about AMD Radeon RX Vega graphic cards? They need to make room for more power.

As posted by MSI marketing director on the Dutch forum Tweakers, AMD Radeon RX Vega graphic cards are power hungry, literally speaking. "I've seen the specs of Vega RX. It needs a damn lot of power. We're working on it, which is a start so launch is coming closer," as translated by VideoCardz.

According to the same report, the power consumption of AMD Radeon RX Vega graphic cards is expected not to be lower than the recently released AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. The said graphics card can consume board power of 300W for air-cooled and 375W if it is using the liquid cooling system.

But what's good is that these AMD Radeon RX Vega graphic cards will be arriving in five weeks' time. Thus, there's a good chance we'll get our hands on AMD Radeon RX Vega graphic cards by late July or early August. AIB resellers are also expected to release their custom designs at launch.

WCCFTech recently posted known specifications of a number of AMD Radeon Vega Lineup, here they are:

AMD Radeon Vega Lineup

Radeon RX Vega Frontier Edition

Radeon RX Vega (Gaming)

Radeon Vega Pro 64

Radeon Vega Pro 56

GPU

Vega 10

Vega 10

Vega 10

Vega 10

Process Node

FinFET

FinFET

FinFET

FinFET

Compute Units

64

TBA

64

56

Stream Processors

4096

TBA

4096

3584

Performance

13 TFLOLPS25 (FP16) TFLOPS

TBA

13 TFLOLPS25 (FP16) TFLOPS

11 TFLOLPS22 (FP16) TFLOPS

Texture Mapping Units

256

256

256

224

Render Output Units

64

64

64

64

Memory

16GB HBM2

TBA

16GB HBM2

8GB HBM2

Memory Bus

2048-bit

2048-bit

2048-bit

2048-bit

Bandwidth

480GB/s

TBA

TBA

400GB/s

TDP

300-375

TBA

TBA

TBA

Launch

June 2017

July 2017

December 2017

December 2017

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